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It’s better than that. Snow Leopard adds Exchange Sync support to Mail.app – so now I’ll get push email on my Mac too.

Annoyingly, I *won’t* get push email for my work email even though it’s on an official Microsoft Exchange server using the official Microsoft Entourage client. Yet a third party client can use a Microsoft proprietary protocol to talk to a third party server….

I was using NuevaSync’s service to do the same thing, but just dropped it for Google’s ‘native'(?) support.

The only downsides of using Google contacts vs. Address Book/iTunes sync is fewer fields (no birthday or URLs, for example) and no groups. It’s still a zillion times better than my old RAZR, so I’m not complaining.

The best part is that I haven’t plugged my phone into my computer in weeks. I’m even considering giving up on Address Book, Mail and Calendar completely.

You guys should try out the app Sync In A Blink. It has alot of the functionality the new google active sync is missing. I was pretty excited about the new google sync too, but after trying it out, its not really that impressive (except for the push part). I like having my group syncing with Sync In A Blink.

ajsutton is you use sync in a blink for one of your email accounts, you can still use ms exchange for work.

[…] and having tried syncing to a real exchange server I knew it was the fault of the protocol. I was excited at first to get push calendaring but the benefits just didn’t seem worth the hassles I had to put up […]